It's pretty typical that Drudge would invoke the fear of salsa overtaking ketchup as America's favorite condiment in his culture wars. Personally, I say Viva Reconquista. If ketchup is the condiment of the Tea Party, it just confirms everything I already think about it. So...
Month: October 2013
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, I hold very still for 12 minutes while discussing Tom Clancy with Steve Saideman:
Listening to The Coup. If you haven't been listening to The Coup, start yesterday. You know you're my cookie baby and you're too smart I can see it in the.
I think Ezra and Atrios have this right. To the extent that budget negotiations are viable, there's no reason that tax increases should be the first Democratic priority, even leaving aside that insisting on tax increases makes any deal inherently impossible. I don't oppose upper-class...
This 1875 map charting syphilis in the Union during the Civil War is awesome. Not sure what was going on in upstate New York, but it seems like a scary.
Audio available here. Posts SEK discusses in this episode: Everyone is always alone, everyone is always surrounded in "The Wolf and the Lion" Posts Attewell discusses in this episode: Eddard.
Shorter Charles Krauthammer: "Everyone else opposes using a racial slur as a team name for the wrong reasons. Fortunately, I'm here to oppose it for reasons that are completely historically inaccurate. And I have a proposed solution that's almost as terrible an idea as naming...
In a column worth reading itself as always, Linda Greenhouse points us to this essay by Dawn Johnsen, which sums up the "originalism" con perfectly: Shelby County, of course, is.
Another classic, this time from Edge of the American West: Gives the Good Neighbor policy a new meaning.
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa's piece on Seneca tribal member and Union officer Ely Parker is pretty interesting, but the real kicker is at the end. For we completely erase Native Americans from the memory of the Civil War experience. Native communities and the Civil War share...
(Post title impishly and guiltlessly stolen from LGM regular, Shakezula) So I just wanted to point out that if we're going to tackle the scourge of rape by "do"ing and.
If you have not read about this "biologist who was called a 'whore' by a blog editor for wanting to be paid for her work," please do so now. It's.